AZGroups used to have a 'Blog Roller', which consisted of the latest couple entries from any of the member's blogs. I liked going there and being able to read the 'headlines' and decide what I wanted to read rather than either go through each blog in order.
Squeet came along, and maybe that's when the roller went away. Squeet works great, and I have a bunch of feeds being emailed to me at home and at my work email address. This is an excellent solution for me, working inside a restrictive environment. I'm fairly certain that I wouldn't be able to run something like a feed reader that's out there hammering on the web for very long without attracting a group of IT folks at my desk.
Bloglines gets a little closer with their Playlists, and there's also Google Reader, and probably others as well. These are the only ones I've played with.
All of these solutions have some drawbacks, at least for how I'd like to use them. Google Reader and Bloglines both seem to have 'stale' data. This must have something to do with their caching and the fact that it's supporting tons of people, not just me. I don't fault them for how they are doing it, but if I want to see what Scott Guthrie is writing, I'd rather see what he wrote this morning, than what he wrote last week. Squeet is much better in this respect, but I've had some messages come through multiple times, and again there's a lag between publishing and receiving.
If I'm wanting to take a short break from work, it would be much quicker to have one 'go-to' place to have all the folks I want to read all clustered together, showing the top x headlines from their blogs.
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